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Completely disagree. Firstly matchday revenue is a massive part of finances at this level & size of crowds correlate to overall interest in club, perception of importance & likelihood of TV screening. In the divison above, global awareness is based on history & rivalry far more than you give credit for...its the mystique of Man Utd & Liverpool that entices fans more than simple success. Man City still dont come close to either global brand at present. Going back to DCFC, the average punter will take a far greater passing interest in Derby v Forest or Leeds than say Palace v Brighton and there's no coincidence Derby were one of the most screened Championship clubs on Sky year after year, irrespective of league placing.
Re crowds, Derby average roughly 33%-50% more home fans than Birmingham & Stoke when in same division and have done for a long time. Same with Coventry. Its perverse to therefore claim we are a similiar size. FWIW Stoke are only anywhere because of the largesee of the Bet365 family, pre-ownership they were regularly getting crowds around the 12k mark. In assessing Birmingham, people make the classic big city mistake when reality is Villa dominate that area & Small Heath come in a poor 4th behind West Brom & Wolves...fans of both would laugh at the suggestion Bluee are same size.
Your comparison with European clubs doesnt really work given the total contrast in supporter culture, inequitable TV money share & relative competition in each country. Villarreal are not a big club though & were unheard of pre-1995.

Reuben is progressing really well and is now working on being able to stand and put his weight through that right leg before he moves on to trying to walk. A little bit more movement in the right elbow but nothing yet in the wrist and hand….. 

Thanks everyone. If it raises some awareness about pediatric strokes as well then that’s the plan. 400 children a year suffer from strokes in the UK. Believe it or not they think chicken pox last year is what cause it. 
 
He is now into his rehabilitation and hopefully we can get him to the first home game of the season. 

Would you rather he just said nothing?
Constantly responding to people like Trav with this sarcy comments is probably the reason why genuine ITKs on this forum don’t share information. 
Just chill and get excited for the window. If he’s right - great! If he’s wrong, no harm done. 

Before the season started I would never had picked Hull for top 6 so to get 7th and just miss out is progress 
Rosenior is a good coach for reasons I’ve  mentioned before and think Rooney was lucky to have him 
Rosenior will get another chance and I for one hope he does well ….stuck by us and conducted himself very well even when we let him go …wish him all the best 

Before the season started I would never had picked Hull for top 6 so to get 7th and just miss out is progress 
Rosenior is a good coach for reasons I’ve  mentioned before and think Rooney was lucky to have him 
Rosenior will get another chance and I for one hope he does well ….stuck by us and conducted himself very well even when we let him go …wish him all the best 

Luckily although it’s obviously beneficial to have larger spending power football is still played on the grass and being astute in the market and on the pitch can reap rewards 
There are plenty of teams who do well on lesser budgets 
im not expecting promotion or anything but I also would be dissapointed if we’re  floundering around near the relegation area 

If we sign Cole we’re in big trouble. Fellas not good enough. Had 1 purple patch at start of the season and did hardly anything for the last 5 months. 

Jack Diamond has been released from Sunderland

For those who can't view this link, it's Waggy's farewell message:

Why do you have to be so cynical?
It's views like this which scare these ITKers from posting up information. 
FWIW I also know all of the players we are signing but I'm not going to tell you now until after they have signed.

😢 in the end he was a surprisingly good addition to the club. There’s a sense of closure in a way that a number of those who joined after admin to help rebuild the club are heading off with a sort of “mission accomplished”. 

Somewhere I clocked a picture of him sat taking it in, Bradley was the only player alongside him with an arm on his shoulder.
Expect being good pro’s they both knew at that point, Conor going out on a high as you say, but Bradley sort of saying you did it mate (well I looked at it and that’s how I read it).
He’s a top bloke, even getting the team celebration lined up, shows what he mean’t to the others. He kind of had a Trevor Christie end of career impact on us, for that I wish him nothing but the best in the future; he’s part of our history now, however brief his stay.

There's always Billy Sharpe?

I don’t blame him for taking his dream job but I do blame him for not having the b******* to do it earlier when it was clear by most he was going 
we also did him a huge favour giving him a break in management then a couple of weeks before season starts and with no signings he quits…so that’s what pissed me off and left us and Cocu in the lurch and impacted greatly on our start to the season 

I don’t blame him for taking his dream job but I do blame him for not having the b******* to do it earlier when it was clear by most he was going 
we also did him a huge favour giving him a break in management then a couple of weeks before season starts and with no signings he quits…so that’s what pissed me off and left us and Cocu in the lurch and impacted greatly on our start to the season 

I don’t blame him for taking his dream job but I do blame him for not having the b******* to do it earlier when it was clear by most he was going 
we also did him a huge favour giving him a break in management then a couple of weeks before season starts and with no signings he quits…so that’s what pissed me off and left us and Cocu in the lurch and impacted greatly on our start to the season 

Let’s hope the fact we still haven’t publicised the retained list is not indicative of our summer recruitment as we seem behind everyone. 
Teams are snapping up players already crossing my fingers we are going to get things done early and get some exciting players in COYR

I don’t blame him for taking his dream job but I do blame him for not having the b******* to do it earlier when it was clear by most he was going 
we also did him a huge favour giving him a break in management then a couple of weeks before season starts and with no signings he quits…so that’s what pissed me off and left us and Cocu in the lurch and impacted greatly on our start to the season 

At least we won’t be linked with Lee Gregory all summer as he’s joined Mansfield …😬

I don’t blame him for taking his dream job but I do blame him for not having the b******* to do it earlier when it was clear by most he was going 
we also did him a huge favour giving him a break in management then a couple of weeks before season starts and with no signings he quits…so that’s what pissed me off and left us and Cocu in the lurch and impacted greatly on our start to the season 

Wildsmith offered 2nd contract turned down.
Warne now in for Johansson 

So folks I’ve heard from my contact the following:
gone 
Wildsmith 
Waghorn
JJ
gayle 
hourihane 
smith 
forsyth - to be offered some type of coaching 
 
 
new contract offered 
Thompson 
collins 
sibley 
barks 
 
Contract offered to 3-4  out of contract players including these I’ve had confirmed 

Burrows 
Herbie Kane 
Tyrese Campbell 
 

Whatever it takes to get back to the Prem, winning a cup competition, playing in europe/europa league before i die (29). Even if it meant blatent cheating and corruption, the dirtiest team in world football / becoming the modern iteration of the 70s Leeds teams, playing hoofball. Whatever it takes.
Rooney should have walked after that 20 game winless streak, the year he replaced Cocu. Regardless of how the next season panned out, he deserves zero accolades for it - Rosenior did all the hard work. Key to the city? Don't make me laugh.